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Sr. Doretta receives the 2017 Partnership for Global Justice Award

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Helen receiving the PGJ Peace and Justice awaredAt the luncheon, Sr. Susan McCarthy, RDC, introduced the 2017 PGJ Peace and Justice Award winner, Sr. M. Doretta Cornell, RDC, after which President of the Board Sr. Kathy Nolan, CSJ, presented the Award. After the luncheon, Sr. Doretta presented an overview of the work done by the Sis-ters of the Divine Compassion to make their properties environmentally more responsible, and various ways she advocates and works for justice and peace, particularly in regard to the environment.

See article in October PGJ newsletter here :http:/Helen/PGJ Newsletter October 2017.pdf

Nun Better and 2010 Springfest

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Sr. Doretta and the nuns at Good Counsel were challenged to a softball game by the Good Counsel Academy All Stars (grammar school kids). They had heard about a softball team the nuns had many years ago which was named Nun Better.
http://picasaweb.google.com/dorettacornell/NunBetterVsGCAStarrs51410
Doretta is in the 6th picture. She also got a hit both times she got up to bat.

I had to go up to St. Isidore’s to drop off the Prayers of Faithful for the weekend masses and turn on the baptismal font for Nancy Dome’s grandson’s baptism. I had not been around town for the last few years of Spring Fest. It had died out for a few years and then started coming back about 2000. This is the first year in a while that the weather has cooperated. It is bigger than ever. I had a scrambled egg and sausage breakfast with Fr. Dave and Fr. Luke at St. I’s, then walked down to center.
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Sr. M Doretta gets published again

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I keep meaning to post this. Helen had another poem published in the December 26, 2008 edition of the National Catholic Reporter. See it in place on http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/2904 or just enjoy it below. (see http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/tanner/annunciation.jpg.html for the painting that inspired it).

Annunciation
(after Tanner)

No proper medieval lady
at her books, no stiff
brocades or tapestries
on https://laparkan.com/buy-accutane/ stone, no lily, no

angelic wings:
this child is soft,
her space marked off
by cloth and color.

All her gaze is lost
in golden light,
unseeable Presence.
Her body folds toward it,

protecting what it would
invade. What words
she hears are perhaps
not so clear

as the evangelist
records:
only light,
invitation.

To refuse
would leach all color
from the earth.

— M. Doretta Cornell
Hawthorne, N.Y.